(09-23-2014, 11:08 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Even when upgrading to Nexus, the increases are very teensy. That said, someone did mention upgrading a budget bow and only seeing a single point of crit increase, so be mindful moving forward how the split might work.If 19 points (11 crit + 8 det) barely makes any difference at all, not sure how adding 1 or 2 points of difference is going to change that.
(09-23-2014, 11:15 AM)Ilweran Wrote: It also depends on the stats you are willing to change on your weapon. If you keep the same stats, you will see only a slight improvement, but for me and my bow, I swapped from skill speed + accuracy to crit rate + determination + accuracy.. I can tell you that for me it changed a LOT !Well, the problem in this case is that there are stat points that are just objectively superior to others (Skill Speed in particular suffering considerably simply because of the lack of strong TP management skills - once you run out of TP, SkSp does absolutely nothing for you).
Fortunately, the actual amount of difference between each stat is still minute enough that you can easily justify gunning for the cheaper option if you're so inclined.
(09-23-2014, 11:26 AM)Enteris Wrote: No, no. I know and understand. But, you can't blame me for wishful/hopeful thinking can you?I perfectly understand and agree, and personally I can't bring myself to start working on a second relic weapon until they nerf the Atma and/or Animus phases to be less tedious and annoying timesinks. I will applaud the moves they've made with Novus and Nexus to be less horrifying overall, but Atma and Animus remain roadblocks that heavily discourage new players from trying to catch up, instead just gunning for an almost effortlessly obtained UAT weapon.
I'd honestly rather have a Chimera/Hydra EX at the end of the chains rather than staring at my map for little blue circles to pop up. A hard boss fight... or the fights like in FFXI you had to endure to be able to break the level caps. That sort of thing...
C'est la vie. I'll eventually buck up and deal with the tedium... but for now I'll stick to my wishful thinking and passive complaining.
(09-23-2014, 11:59 AM)Aysun Wrote: 1: I'm not basing my decision off a thread from some person on the toxic waste dump that is the official forums.Well, that's just silly, given that the basis of his argument is objective fact.
(09-23-2014, 11:59 AM)Aysun Wrote: 2: I didn't mind putting the extra effort in to get the tier IV materia. Some people don't mind doing extra work for something they want.The problem I have with this mindset is that you are effectively committing self-harm in the name of 'doing what I want'. Kind of like people pouring hundreds to possibly thousands of dollars into F2P games because they want this or that thing, without thinking about the actual financial damage they're doing to themselves in the process.
3: I'm not a min/maxer (very few of us are here, I imagine, or we'd all be fantasia'ing), but I'm making my stats what I want, as are most people who do Novus. That's kind of the point, after all.
My main problem with this thread is you're not offering advice, you're telling them they're doing it wrong. You can advise people to do it your way without trying to completely undermine everything that other people do.
I mean, these are video games. There's already an element of 'what the hell was I doing with my life?' when you've poured hundreds of hours into a thing just because you want that thing (hell, just finishing Atma was enough to get me to question my priorities - though I still suffered through it in the end). When you voluntarily pour another few hundred hours into something just because you CAN? Well, now we're entering 'whoa, hold on a second!' territory.
You can still do it. Just don't pretend you're doing it for anything even partly resembling rational reasons.
